Only four men alive today have walked on the Moon. Last month, three of them got together in the same room. NASA's Apollo program ran 17 missions, which are best known for putting the first people on the Moon in 1969.

You may have seen this past week that Discovery relaunched its global brand.

In the halo of the Milky Way, a tiny, ancient star called J0023+0307 drifts about, minding its business. It's very old indeed, which isn't uncommon for stars in the halo - but it contains no detectable carbon, which is pretty danged weird. So weird

The Nordic countries are consistently ranked as the happiest countries in the world according to World Happiness Reports published since 2012. Because of this, other countries often look to them for guidance when it comes to nurturing the well-bein

The bronze weapons of the famous Terracotta Army in China have been remarkably well preserved over the last 2,000 or so years.

Contact lenses can be annoying. But poking yourself in the eye for the third time in one morning has nothing on this woman from the UK who ended up with a contact lens embedded in her eyelid for nearly 30 years.

HIV is a sneaky virus. It can hide in the immune cells of people taking daily antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs, waiting until they stop the therapy to come back with a vengeance.

Too much salt — and not enough whole grains, fruits and vegetables — may be shaving years off our lives, a new analysis suggests.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it has yet to determine the source of an E. coli outbreak that has infected 72 people in five states — an admission one expert in food-borne illness called "perplexing," conside

When it comes to the weather systems controlling rain and shine across the planet, nothing happens in isolation – everything plays into everything else.

Just because the Mars rovers are all the way over on the Red Planet, that doesn't mean they don't get to enjoy a bit of eclipse fun. And with two moons on rapid orbits, Mars sees a lot of eclipses.

We all love a good rags to riches story, but the truth is that poverty never really leaves you. Not only does it have a lasting effect on your health and mental well-being, growing up poor changes you at a genetic level. 

Upon first glance, this fossilized sea creature looks more like the Sarlacc from Star Wars' "Return of the Jedi" than any animal on Earth today.

After five decades of intense and expensive policing, the United States' so-called 'war on drugs' has only created a bigger problem, a new study has found.

Botanical garden, 1minute walk ;))

Linus Torvalds, the Linux creator who's himself known for angry tirades, said that if he could fix one thing about the internet, it would be modern social media — a flame-spitting recrimination by the inventor of the software that keeps much of t

A family pet is being nursed back to health after it was found abandoned, malnourished and living in "deplorable" conditions, which had led to disease, authorities said.

There are a lot of different ways to look at our planet's warming climate – such as more extreme weather events, increasing levels of vegetation in the Arctic, and even shifting seasons.

Researchers have spotted a miniature stomach, duodenum, and small intestine hidden among the cells of lung tumor samples.

You might not think about it much, but water is super weird. It doesn't behave like any other liquid.

What once seemed like the moonshot vision of tech billionaires and idealistic architects could soon become a concrete solution to several of the world's most pressing challenges.